Handbrake Accident Am I Insured

Bonniepurple

DullGreyGuy said:

Bonniepurple said:

DullGreyGuy said:

2woodward2 said:

Thank you DullGreyGuy for again replying. I haven't held any information in this post back that would change things and I certainly wasn't drunk. However I am very very stupid for this to happen but it looks like the insurance company will allow that. Thank you so much in spending the time to help me.

Had one elderly gentleman, who spent a lot of time talking to our FNOL/claim reporting team saying how great he is for his age, who put the car in D rather than R, when the car started moving in the wrong direction went to hit the brake but got the accelerator and damaged 6 cars plus his own. 

3 months later had a new claim on my desk which was very similar but this time it was 8 cars damaged plus his own. Looked back and it was the same chap. This time it was his daughter that phoned up saying they were taking his keys from him. 

14 strangers cars and his own car repaired twice, over £100k in total. The only thing we did was put a block on him not renewing with us again. 

I’ll bet he was still insisting that he was a really good driver.  

Never spoke to him again, so can't say, he gave authorisation for his daughter to deal to the FNOL line. I did have to tell her we wouldnt be renewing and she said she was glad as they're taking the keys off him which was unusually reasonable. Normally people get on their high horse with these things but then in all my time of claims he was one of only two that I put on the do not renew list. 

By the sounds of it, the daughter would have been relieved to have a reason to tell her Dad to stop driving.  I remember feeling very relieved that the forms from the DVLA following a minor accident and a failed roadside eye check came a couple of weeks AFTER said accident, by which time my Dad had died (not linked to the accident, although the accident was linked to his poor health) as my Dad did not want to stop driving, even temporarily.